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Nasa

Pulls planetary imagery, earth science data, and near earth object tracking into your workflows to automate scientific reporting and environmental monitoring.

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Why use Ceven?

  1. AI native Nasa integration

    • Describe the outcome and Ceven picks the right Nasa calls, fills the parameters, and checks the result.
    • Structured, agent friendly tool schemas so each call runs reliably instead of by guesswork.
    • Rich coverage for reading, writing, and querying your Nasa data, across all 136 of its actions.

  2. Managed auth

    • Built in OAuth with automatic token refresh and rotation.
    • One place to manage, scope, and revoke Nasa access.
    • Per user and per environment credentials instead of shared keys.

  3. Agent optimized design

    • Actions are tuned from real success and error rates so reliability climbs over time.
    • Full execution logs so you always know what ran in Nasa, when, and on whose behalf.
    • The agent pauses and asks when Nasa is unclear instead of plowing ahead.

  4. Enterprise grade security

    • Fine grained access so you control which agents and people can reach Nasa.
    • Least privilege by default, read scopes first and only the writes a workflow needs.
    • A full audit trail of every Nasa action to support review and sign off.

Supported tools

Every action Ceven's agents can run on Nasa, and when to use it.

Get CMR Collections
Use this when you need to search NASA science data collections by spatial, temporal, or metadata filters.
Get CMR Granules
Pull granule metadata filtered by collection IDs, spatial, or temporal criteria after confirming filters.
Get EONET Categories
Pull a list of all event categories including IDs, titles, and descriptions for event filtering.
Get EONET Events ATOM
Pull a machine readable XML feed of recent natural events from EONET.
Get EONET Events RSS
Pull the latest EONET events as an RSS feed for integration into news streams.
Get EONET Layers
Retrieve available data layers for event visualization after confirming a category ID.
Get EONET Magnitudes
Pull a list of available event magnitudes and descriptions to build valid filters.
Get EONET Source by ID
Fetch source metadata like ID, title, and homepage for a specific EONET event source.
Get EONET Sources
Enumerate all available event sources before querying specific event data.
Get Mars Rover Photos
Fetch photos taken by a specific Mars rover on a given martian sol.
Search Near Earth Objects
Identify asteroids in a date window of up to seven days by closest approach date.
Search SVS Visualizations
Query the scientific visualization studio by keywords or mission filters for visual assets.

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Frequently asked questions

Ceven can operate using the default DEMO key provided by NASA, but this is heavily rate limited. For professional workflows, you should provide your own API key in the connection settings. The DEMO key is intended for basic testing and will often return errors if you run high frequency loops or large data backfills. Once you add your own key, Ceven stores it encrypted and attaches it to every header. This ensures your agents have higher throughput and can handle complex searches across the common metadata repository without hitting the global rate limit for anonymous users.
NASA APIs generally have a rate limit based on the API key used. If you use a standard API key, you can typically make thousands of requests per hour. Ceven manages these limits by implementing an exponential backoff strategy. If the NASA server returns a 429 Too Many Requests response, the agent will pause and retry the call automatically. You can monitor your current usage in the Ceven integration dashboard to see if your workflows are approaching the threshold, which is especially common when pulling large sets of CMR granules or high resolution imagery.
Yes. You can set up a Ceven workflow that polls the EONET Events RSS or ATOM feeds at a set interval. The agent parses the feed for specific category IDs, such as wildfires or storms, and then triggers a downstream action. For example, if a new event is detected in a specific geographic region, Ceven can send a Slack alert to your team and simultaneously trigger a search for related SVS visualizations to provide visual context. This turns a passive data feed into an active monitoring system for environmental risk management.
The agent uses the Mars Rover Photos API which requires a specific rover name and a martian sol. A sol is a solar day on Mars, which is slightly longer than an earth day. You can tell the agent to find photos for a specific date, and it will calculate the correct sol or use the sol directly if provided. The agent can then filter these photos by camera type, such as the front hazard avoidance camera or the navigation camera, and save the resulting image URLs directly into your database or document.
The CMR is NASA's central hub for finding earth science data. Through Ceven, you can query CMR collections to find datasets based on spatial bounds, time ranges, or specific keywords. Once the agent identifies the correct collection ID, it can then perform a second call to retrieve individual granules. Granules are the actual data files or subsets of data. This two step process allows the agent to narrow down millions of records into a handful of specific files that are relevant to your scientific research or environmental analysis.
The Near Earth Object search tool has a strict limitation on the date range. You can only search for asteroids within a seven day window for any single request. If your workflow needs to scan a full month, Ceven will automatically break that request into five separate calls to stay within the API constraints. The agent then aggregates those results into a single list for you. This ensures you get a complete view of approaching objects without the API rejecting the request for an overly broad date range.
Ceven pulls metadata and links to the data rather than the raw binary files themselves. For example, when querying CMR granules, the agent retrieves the download URL and the metadata description. If you need the raw data, you can configure a workflow to take those URLs and trigger a download via a separate file transfer tool or a cloud storage upload. This keeps the agent fast and prevents the workflow from timing out while attempting to move multi gigabyte scientific datasets over a standard API connection.
The Scientific Visualization Studio search allows the agent to find high quality videos and images created by NASA. By providing keywords or mission names, the agent queries the SVS database and returns a list of matching assets. This is particularly useful for creating automated presentations or public facing dashboards. You can tell the agent to find the most recent visualizations for a specific planet, and it will pull the latest entries and their corresponding metadata, including the production date and the mission that provided the source data.

Alternatives to Nasa

Other tools that solve a similar problem. Ceven supports these too, so you can switch or run more than one at once.

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